Example sentences of "[v-ing] take any [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Bonefish Straker had rescued Masquerade , propping her up in his own backyard and refusing to take any money from me as a salvage fee .
2 He was a very modest man , refusing to take any credit for the enterprise that bore his name .
3 I criticise them for refusing to accept that they made a mistake and for refusing to take any action to put matters right , when it was patently obvious that everything was going disastrously wrong .
4 I mean the bas if you 're sort of wanting to take any holiday or time
5 Not wanting to take any risks , they brought forward the dates for the 1992 tournament to September .
6 OFFICIALS from Rugby will look at video evidence before deciding to take any action arising from their Courage Championship Second Division game with Richmond , during which Paul Gutteridge the Richmond tight head prop had his nose broken .
7 Sir Norman said : ‘ I am not going take any criticism from Mr Lamont on that particular area .
8 He fired : ‘ I am not going take any criticism from Mr Lamont on that particular area .
9 ‘ Not while , Preston , ’ said his aunt , in the tone of voice she used when she was n't going to take any nonsense .
10 ‘ My friends were n't going to take any nonsense from me and if I was at all
11 He was going to take any opportunity he could to get her off his team , so there was little point in her trying to argue her case with him .
12 It is n't going to take any risks , Parker said , and has even taken on US software specialists to provide in-depth knowledge of the local market .
13 At first sight what he seems to be saying is simply that no one is going to take any notice of the conclusions which a rational woman reaches after deliberation .
14 And when it came to moving them around , who was going to take any notice of vehicles coming and going from a hospital ?
15 How an I going to take any wickets at all if I can not float my deceptively slow left-armers out of the darkness of the trees at seven o'clock on a late September evening ?
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